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  • Titan
    Titan Member Posts: 2,956
    edited April 2010

    Sugar..a friend brought me a blanket she had made..it was beautiful and I really appreciated it..but since I was having chemo in spring/summer and going through chemopause the last thing I needed was a blanket....I would just kinda of stare at it...didn't like what it meant...Anyway, I gave it to my daughter to have at school because she is always cold..and she loves the color pink....

    And this friend wasn't really a good friend....kind of surprised me to say the least.

    And did you guys get lots of cards?  I wouldn't even look at them...I think I finally looked at them and then put them away somewhere..I appreciated the thoughts (I guess)...

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

    I got lots of cards and little gifts. I was surprised and humbled by all of them. So many people wishing me well...

    I discovered I had more friends than I thought so, for me, a good thing. I saved all the cards... for now.

    Oddly enough for me it was all those people wanting to put me on "Wings", or sponsor something cancer related in my name, etc. that *really* bothered me. REALLY. I did not appreciate being someone's cause...especially if I didn't even know them!

    Really a hot button for me... being someone's cancer cause.Yell

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

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  • Sugar77
    Sugar77 Member Posts: 2,138
    edited April 2010

    That picture is so funny. I had a good laugh.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

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    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

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  • justpayton1
    justpayton1 Member Posts: 786
    edited April 2010

    LOVE the hotdog!!!! Just cute cute cute!!!!

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  • Titan
    Titan Member Posts: 2,956
    edited April 2010

    That's not a weiner dog!  That dog should be in a taco.

    Hey Payton!  Good to hear from you..hope things are going ok..!

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  • Sugar77
    Sugar77 Member Posts: 2,138
    edited April 2010

    LOL...that would actually be really funny to see that cute little pooch in a photographed in a taco shell!

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  • Titan
    Titan Member Posts: 2,956
    edited April 2010

    Oops..that is a daschund isn't it...?  Here, I was thinking that it was the taco bell dog but the ears aren't right.....

    Chemo brain?  Maybe????  I will use that excuse as long as I can.

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  • Sugar77
    Sugar77 Member Posts: 2,138
    edited April 2010

    Titan - I still think it would be cute to see that little dog in a taco shell.  Trust me...I'm milking the chemo brain excuse for as long as I can (...even though I had it before chemo!).

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

    Ha-ha-ha--- glad you guys finally realized it was a *dachshund*! I still think the guy could have used a better quality bun though. As it is it's like serving steak with potato chips.

    Just got back from having my neck massage. Funny, on chemo and all during my treatment my usually chronic stiff neck didn't bother me. Now that I'm back to gardening and mucking stalls it's back to being a.....well, pain in the neck!

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  • PauldingMom
    PauldingMom Member Posts: 927
    edited April 2010

    I love this topic.

    And now a brief intermission while I VENTYell about all those ladies out there who get to take hormone treatment. I know it's wrong to be upset when I hear them saying that ,"oh it's making me fat." or " I'm so tired all the time." At least they have something! Now that I am done with surgery and treatment it's just wait....wait... wait.

    And now back to wiener dogs and tacos.Embarassed 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

    PauldingMom,

    Vent acknowledged, but you know what? I've thought about that subject from time to time and I've begun to realize that mets are mets, whether you're TN or not. It's recurrence that's different.

    To me, I feel like the additional drugs an ER/PR+ woman can take just put off the possibility of recurrence but not necessarily the possibility of mets (at least for us early stagers, perhaps).

    Anyway, when I read about some of the SE's from these additional treatments I often think maybe NOT having to take anything else is a good thing. After all, the fear of uncertainty wrt the future affects all women (and men) with BC; the drugs don't change that IMO.

    Not sure if I'm making myself clear on this issue but maybe someone else will chime in with a similar opinion and do a better job. My neck & back are killing me from re-doing the brick edging in my backyard today. Totally undid my 3 pm massage. 

    Stupid me.

    PS- I had a male relative on the Titanic who survived. He was traveling First Class and had been on the crew team at Harvard, so he was one of the male rowers.

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  • Titan
    Titan Member Posts: 2,956
    edited April 2010

    Heidi..are you kidding me?  That is so cool about your relative! Did he tell you stories about the ship etc???  I loved that movie..

    Paulding mom...I've said this b=4 and i will say it again....remember after 3 years w/o a reocurrence we have little chance for reocurrence..after 5 there is virtually NO chance.

    No..we can't take the "insurance drug"...but then we don't have the se's either....just hang in there...I have a co-worker that is tn 6 years out...her onc..at the Cleveland Clinic...told her that being tn isn't really a bad thing...after a couple of years he told her that she was pretty well good to go...after 5 years he told her that she was definitely good to go!  I really don't think any onc. would tell you unless he/she was pretty sure....

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

    His name was Phillip Mock. He was traveling with a Baroness.  I did not know him personally. My grandmother's name was Mock. They apparently were concrete Barons in New York and laid most of what is around City Hall.

    Other than that details are sketchy. I have a copy of a letter the Baroness wrote about the ordeal.

    I must be one of their poor relations!Cry

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  • PauldingMom
    PauldingMom Member Posts: 927
    edited April 2010

    That's pretty cool heidi. Does anyone else have a famous relative?

    We are somehow distant relatives of a president....well sort of. Jefferson Davis, the president of the south during the civil war. He is carved into the side of Stone Mountain here in GA. One of our relatives danced with Abe Lincoln too. Of course that was before the Civil War. I don't think the Daviss partied much with the Lincoln's after all that fussing and fighting broke out.  

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  • Sugar77
    Sugar77 Member Posts: 2,138
    edited April 2010

    No blood relatives who are famous that I'm aware. That said, my step-grandmother's niece was Tammy Faye Baker.  We found this out well after her death. 

    The golfer Mike Weir is from my home town and I used to work for his father back in the '80s when Mike was a teenager. He was the junior pro at the golf course owned by the company. Then a few years later, when I moved over to the communications dept., we profiled him in our company newsletter when he won a golf scholarship to Brigham Young University. We knew he was going to be a star golfer even back then!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

    Well actually, the one I am most proud of, as a horseman, is my Uncle Louie. He trained Man o' War, the greatest racehorse in history. And, I knew him and spoke often of this great horse. If any of you ever get to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington visit his statue/memorial. It is awesome and this great horse is buried under it, surrounded by a lovely moat. It is the focal point of the Visitor's Center.

    I donated a teak bench to my uncle within this memorial that has a brass plaque on it with Uncle Lou's name, trainer of Mo'W, given by his niece (me).

    Google Man o' War. When I visit KHP it brings tears of pride to me eyes. But, I am a horseman.. ..

     Oh yeah.... I now also joke that I am related to Thomas Jefferson... is that politically incorrect?Innocent

    (ducking and running now...)

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

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  • retrievermom
    retrievermom Member Posts: 522
    edited May 2010

    So cool.  Thanks for putting that up.

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  • Titan
    Titan Member Posts: 2,956
    edited May 2010

    What happened to their Mama?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

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  • Titan
    Titan Member Posts: 2,956
    edited May 2010

    That is so sad!  My DH almost hit a rabbit last night..I was screaming and waiting to hear the "thump" but he ended up missing it.  Of course we have whip lash from trying to NOT hit it but that is OK...!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

    Well, I am always checking the roads for fresh roadkill rabbit, bird or squirrel to feed them. Last night they had owl and drowned starlings.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011

    Here are my "new" babies...

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  • Sugar77
    Sugar77 Member Posts: 2,138
    edited May 2010

    Ah, they are so cute. What an awesome photo!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2011
    Yes, I got nipped on my sweatshirt for the effort...Laughing
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  • violet7
    violet7 Member Posts: 180
    edited May 2010

    Beautiful fox kits (is it kits?)!  Thank you for sharing :)

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  • Titan
    Titan Member Posts: 2,956
    edited May 2010

    They are beautiful Heidi...the one in the feeding dish looks a little tentative..guess he/she doesn't like his pic taken..will they let you hold them? And I love the one hiding next to the food dish..They are so cute..but wild nonetheless....they do me good..thanks for posting a pic of them..

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